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As regulatory requirements increasingly mandate age verification, companies must carefully balance compliance obligations with the fundamental responsibility to protect user privacy and security. In the years following the breach, Target significantly enhanced its cybersecurity defenses. The company invested in more …

Data breaches are incidents in which confidential information, including consumer data, is stolen from a company or organization. There were 278.8 million data breach victims in 2025, according to the Identity Theft Research Center. That's down significantly from 1.36 billion victims in 2024, but certainly not a…